Name: Baked Hash
Ingredients: one quart cold cooked chopped beef; one pint chopped uncooked potatoes; one pint of water; one teaspoonful of salt; two eggs; three dashes of pep- per; salt

Why it works: Beef and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Baked Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the hash

Put the chopped potatoes in a pan with one pint of water.
Let them stew for five minutes, then add the meat and enough water to make the moisture required.
Stew ten minutes longer.
Take from the fire, add the beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of salt and three dashes of pepper.

Bake and serve

Turn it into a baking dish and bake for twenty minutes in a quick oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

489Calories

37 gProtein

20 gFat

38 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,052 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,978 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Beef + eggtop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Soften while stewing and give the hash its body and bulk.
Cooked beef: Supplies the main protein and savory flavor of the hash.
Eggs: Set when baked, binding the chopped ingredients together into a cohesive mass.